Tentative Draft No. 6 of Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses will be presented to ALI membership at the 2022 Annual Meeting. The following is the Reporter’s Memorandum from this draft.
Stephen J. Schulhofer Posts
Sex Offense Registries in Europe and Around the World
by Stephen J. Schulhofer | Dec 9, 2020 | Sexual Assault
This article presents new research by Stephen Schulhofer about the treatment of sex offense registration in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU. The research, along with an introduction by Alessandro Corda, comes from material prepared for inclusion in an upcoming draft of the Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses.
Registration and Notification
by Stephen J. Schulhofer | Feb 20, 2020 | Sexual Assault
The current ALI project Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault and Related Offenses is a re-examination of Article 213 of the Model Penal Code. This post presents Section 213. 12 (A-J) of the most recent project draft (Council Draft No. 10, printed on December 13, 2019).
Reforming the Law of Rape
by Stephen J. Schulhofer | Oct 24, 2017 | Sexual Assault
In this Article, I undertake two distinct tasks. First, I want to discuss what the laws against sexual assault ideally should look like. But second, I also want to discuss rape law from the perspective of someone who has spent the past four years in the messy and frustrating work of legislative compromise, trying to design law reform that can be both progressive and enactable.
Rape and Forcible Rape
by Stephen J. Schulhofer | May 4, 2017 | Sexual Assault
The present Draft places Forcible Rape (Section 213.1) at two levels for grading purposes. The base offense is graded as a felony of the second degree, with an enhancement to a first-degree felony upon proof of any one of three aggravating circumstances.
Project Reporters on “Consent”
by Stephen J. Schulhofer | Aug 30, 2016 | Sexual Assault
In this video, Project Reporter Stephen Schulhofer and Associate Reporter Erin Murphy discuss the project and the complexity of defining consent.